Thread: Amazon's LOTR Series Name - "Rings of Power"
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Given Amazons Draconian inclusion and equity policies, it's an absolute given this will suck ass completely. Want diversity? Greenlight productions where it makes sense. Don't try and shove square pegs in round holes.
 

Given Amazons Draconian inclusion and equity policies, it's an absolute given this will suck ass completely. Want diversity? Greenlight productions where it makes sense. Don't try and shove square pegs in round holes.

Hiring people because of the colour of their skin is the very definition of racist.
 
Sir Lenny Henry, 63, will be playing a Harfoot in the upcoming series.

In an interview regarding his casting, the actor revealed that Harfoots are a multi-cultural tribe of hobbits.

He said: "A hundred people on set [are] glaring at you and trying to work out what you'll look like four feet tall."

Sir Lenny went on: "I'm a Harfoot, because J.R.R. Tolkien, who was also from Birmingham, suddenly there were black hobbits, I'm a black hobbit. It's brilliant.

"What's notable about this run of the books, it's a prequel to the age that we've seen in the films, it's about the early days of the Shire and Tolkien's environment, so we're an indigenous population of Harfoots. We're hobbits but we're called Harfoots.

"We're multi-cultural, we're a tribe not a race, so we're black, asian and brown, even Maori types within it."


:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
 
Do these writers know that developing certain hair type and complexion is linked to the conditions people live in and that this takes thousands of years? Do they realize that these unlikely mixed tribes (in a medieval world without fast traveling via airplanes and such) would look all the same in a couple of generations due to intermixing?
 
"These people are really, really good looking."

um WHAT. At least 80% of them are fucking ugly. Not even average. We have entered some kind of weird Emperor Has No Clothes realm where if someone isn't white, everyone has to pretend to find the fucker attractive so show how racist they aren't.

Don't forget about how much sex the audience is apparently going to watch these mutants having
 
"These people are really, really good looking."

um WHAT. At least 80% of them are fucking ugly. Not even average. We have entered some kind of weird Emperor Has No Clothes realm where if someone isn't white, everyone has to pretend to find the fucker attractive so show how racist they aren't.
Halo TV show has the same problem
 
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Good God. It's bad enough that the POC casting ruins the idea of the world Tolkien created, but are they actually going to make Elrond and Galadriel fuck each other as one of those photos suggest?

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Fuck this show if they go that route.
 
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Fuck racists and all, but when they're not even being subtle about it and even write under the black elf's photo "character created for the show", then that's bs.

Look, I'm all for black actors getting work in big shows, too. But the LotR is an institution, it's a fixed entity, and if you find the original "problematic", then fucking don't make a tv show of it to begin with.

I'm glad that this is only another re-telling of the LotR anyway, which means I can just stick to the movies that perfectly adapted the books.